The latest XNB video offers a deep dive into the Arturia Beatstep Pro sequencer.
Topics covered:
0:00 – Intro
0:22 – Channels
04:53 – Creating patterns
23:29 – Encoders
34:23 – Transpose & Preset Link
39:25 – Saving & advanced clear
45:50 – Scales
49:16 – Drum track
56:33 – Pattern length
01:06:20 – Swing
01:09:43 – Randomness/Probability
01:17:00 – Polyrhythm
01:22:20 – Chaining
01:25:49 – Scenes
01:31:32 – Roller Looper
01:38:14 – Wait to load & Global tempo
I sometimes have a weird bug if I want to record 4 Bars and the Chord mode is on, I can only record three and on the fourth a Red Led starts blinking and the notes arent recoreded. Pretty frustrating but other than that a cool controller.
Arturia, can we please get pattern rotation? You’ve got all the hardware to do it. It would really be the icing on the cake of what could be an amazing sequencer.
just curious, what does this mean and why should i miss it?
if say you have a pattern with triggers/notes on steps 1,3,5,7, rotating one step forward would push the pattern forward one step so you’d now have triggers on steps 2,4,6,8. Really handy for live editing stuff or copying and altering sequences quickly – and loads more